Homeopathic Materia Medica

ARSENICUM ALBUM

(ars)

(Arsenious Acid)-Arsenic Trioxide A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application. Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and RESTLESSNESS, with NIGHTLY AGGRAVATION, are most important. GREAT EXHAUSTION AFTER THE SLIGHTEST EXERTION. This, with the peculiar irritability of fibre, gives the characteristic IRRITABLE WEAKNESS. BURNING PAINS. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat. SEASIDE COMPLAINTS (NAT. MUR.; AQUA MARINA). Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones. Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency. FEAR FRIGHT AND WORRY. Green discharges. Infantile Kala-azar. (Dr. Neatby). ARS. should be thought of in ailments from alcoholism, PTOMAINE POISONING, stings, dissecting wounds, chewing tobacco; ill effects from decayed food or animal matter; odor of discharges is PUTRID; in complaints that return annually. Anaemia and chlorosis. Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition. Reduces the refractive index of blood serum (also CHINA and FERR. PHOS.). Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location. Malarial cachexia. SEPTIC INFECTIONS AND LOW VITALITY.

MindGREAT ANGUISH AND RESTLESSNESS. CHANGES PLACE CONTINUALLY. FEARS, of death, of being left alone. Great fear, with cold sweat. Thinks it useless to take medicine. Suicidal. Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him from place to place. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage. General sensibility increased (HEP.). Sensitive to disorder and confusion.

Head Headaches relieved by cold, other symptoms worse. Periodical burning pains, with RESTLESSNESS; with cold skin. Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness, Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Head is in constant motion. Scalp ITCHES intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair.

StomachCANNOT BEAR THE SIGHT OR SMELL OF FOOD. GREAT THIRST; DRINKS MUCH, BUT LITTLE AT A TIME. Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking. Anxiety in pit of stomach. BURNING PAIN. Craves acids and coffee. Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat. Long-lasting eructations. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely instable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia from slightest food or drink. Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco. Terrible fear and dyspnoea, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion. Malignant symptoms. Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the oesophagus, which seems as if closed and nothing would pass. ILL EFFECTS OF VEGETABLE DIET, MELONS, AND WATERY FRUITS GENERALLY. Craves milk.

Abdomen Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire; relieved by heat. LIVER AND SPLEEN ENLARGED AND PAINFUL. Ascites and anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful. Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing.